Example sentences of "a reputation for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baedeker acquired a reputation for serious standards , and the traveller who missed a double-asterisked attraction had clearly journeyed in vain . |
| 2 | There was a church just to the north of there that had a reputation for being helpful towards homeless people — I 'd try my luck there . |
| 3 | Care should be taken to buy from a breeder with a reputation for breeding good temperaments |
| 4 | Nor did she worry overmuch that she had a reputation for being harder on women officers than men . |
| 5 | That it is now required reading for the French Establishment and for anybody involved in business or education is a measure of how successfully it fulfilled its task without compromising a reputation for unbiased reporting . |
| 6 | In Oslo yesterday , diplomats warned that the Nobel committee had a reputation for security and the leaked forecasts might prove wide of the mark . |
| 7 | Essentially the Post charged that in a 1984 report , Mike Hoover , a freelance news cameraman with a reputation for providing theatrical footage , recreated scenes of Afghan rebels sabotaging electricity pylons — days after the real action had taken place . |
| 8 | He said the Conservatives had to win a reputation for being ‘ a listening party ’ , showing a willingness , where necessary , ‘ to reappraise ’ . |
| 9 | Not only is she pretty ; she has a reputation for being more of a Socialist than her husband and far more level-headed than he about the trappings of prime ministerial power . |
| 10 | We 've been bugged for 10 years by a reputation for extremism and division , which we 're just getting rid of . |
| 11 | All four are united by a healthy disrespect for dominant tastes and the remains of a reputation for exposing new talent before the industry finds it . |
| 12 | Some industries acquired chairmen with a reputation for cost-cutting and a tough stand on labour relations . |
| 13 | Carrickmacross has a reputation for double-figure bream , but there is good mixed sport . |
| 14 | The match will be fished in all but the severest of conditions — the Oxford has a reputation for producing fish even when ice-breaking is necessary . |
| 15 | Sierras have a reputation for being tough and the four-wheel-drive versions are the toughest of all . |
| 16 | The west of Ireland has a reputation for swift seduction . |
| 17 | for most of his life he has been stuck with a reputation for finding the Goons funny , but nothing since that era . |
| 18 | Betty Jackson is one of the most respected and successful designers in Britain , with a reputation for producing stylish , comfortable and versatile clothes . |
| 19 | Chinese herbalists have gained a reputation for treating eczema , masseurs for relieving the pain of some kinds of arthritis and cranial osteopaths for quietening crying babies . |
| 20 | The Sek Kong centre , planted uncomfortably in the middle of the colony 's only military airfield , has a reputation for riots , murders and wide-scale intimidation . |
| 21 | The very latest Cairo tittle-tattle is that President Hosni Mubarak ( who has a reputation for honesty ) has made himself rich by taking a cut from every barrel of oil exported . |
| 22 | And it has earned Mr Welch a reputation for arrogance and ruthlessness that he finds embarrassing . |
| 23 | Naturally , Greenidge tried to emulate Richards which , when things went well , was fine , but when they did not it meant that , for a while , he gained a reputation for not being over-reliable ; perhaps he suffered from trying to hit the ball too hard , for there were plenty of people who felt that he would have been a better player had he not tried to ‘ bury the ball into the wall of some distant building ’ ( his own words ) at every opportunity . |
| 24 | By not only relieving David Gower of the captaincy , which was inevitable , but omitting him altogether the selectors provoked an uproar ; they came up with a party that had only two specialist openers , an inexperienced middle order , and some fast bowlers who were virtually untried , injury-prone and had a reputation for speed but not accuracy . |
| 25 | The next day belonged to Devon Malcolm , a man who came into the Test team a few months earlier against Australia with a reputation for being able to bowl extremely quickly but rarely accurately , who , with less than perfect eyesight , was a total rabbit with the bat , and who could be a joke as a fielder . |
| 26 | In the West Indies the incident of wanting to go to the airport , and the fact that he turned up late for matches a number of times , had gained him a reputation for lack of discipline . |
| 27 | This was only natural as she had a reputation for secrecy . |
| 28 | The staff told me to stay well away because she had a reputation for turning violent . |
| 29 | Fourthly , as the example of the ‘ Church Struggle ’ showed , Hitler was widely viewed — even by prominent Church leaders with a reputation for hostility to Nazism — as personally sincere , and in matters affecting established traditions and institutions as a ‘ moderate ’ opposed to the radical and extreme elements in the Nazi Movement , but largely kept in the dark about what was actually going on . |
| 30 | This time she would have to get past one of Australia 's toughest talent spotters , a woman with a reputation for making or breaking young stars . |